The Mountain Homeplace (also known as the Mountain HomePlace) is a living history museum located within Paintsville Lake State Park, in Staffordsville, Kentucky. The museum is a re-creation of a mid-nineteenth-century farming community and includes a blacksmith shop, one-room schoolhouse, church, cabin, and barn with farm grounds, these structures were all moved from nearby locations in the early 1980s to prevent them from being submerged underneath the planned Paintsville Lake.[1] The museum officially opened in July 1995.[2]

Tour guides and park workers wearing traditional period attire demonstrate old skills and crafts such as forging horseshoes, quilting, and tending to farm animals.[3] There is also a Welcome Center, consisting of the Museum of Appalachian History and a gift shop featuring regional arts and crafts.

The In the Pines Amphitheater was built in the early 2000s and was modeled after the amphitheaters of Ancient Greece, the 700-seat facility is open year-round and annually hosts the Red Bud Gospel Sing.[4]

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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation

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Open-air museum
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An open-air museum is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts out-of-doors. They are also known as museums of buildings or folk museums. The concept of an open-air museum originated in Scandinavia in the late 19th century, a comprehensive history of the open-air museum as idea and institution can be found in Swedish museologist Sten Rentzhogs 2007 book Open Air Museums, The History and Future of a Visionary Idea. Living history museums, including living farm museums and living museums, the interpreters act as if they are living in a different time and place and perform everyday household tasks, crafts, and occupations. The goal is to demonstrate older lifestyles and pursuits to modern audiences, household tasks might include cooking on an open hearth, churning butter, spinning wool and weaving, and farming without modern equipment. They may therefore be described as building museums, European open-air museums tended to be originally in regions where wooden architecture prevailed, as wooden structures may be trans-located without substantial loss of authenticity. Common to all museums, including the earliest ones of the 19th century, is the teaching of the history of everyday living by people from all segments of society. The idea of the museum dates to the 1790s. The first proponent of the idea was the Swiss thinker Charles de Bonstetten and was based on a visit to an exhibit of peasant costumes in the park of Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark. He believed that traditional peasant houses should be preserved against modernity, the first major steps towards the creation of open-air museums was taken in Norway in 1867 when a private citizen transferred some historic farm buildings to a site near Oslo for public viewing. This, in turn, inspired King Oscar II, to establish his own collection nearby, the similar Nordic Museum, was founded in Stockholm, Sweden soon afterwards. In 1891, the first major open-air museum was founded at Skansen, near Stockholm, the Skansen museum included farm buildings from across Scandinavia, folk costumes, live animals, folk music, and demonstrations of folk crafts. The success of Skansen ensured that the museum idea spread to countries across the world. Most open-air museums concentrate on rural culture, however, since the opening of the first town museum, The Old Town in Aarhus, Denmark in 1914, town culture has also become a scope of open-air museums. In many cases new town quarters are being constructed in existing rural culture museums, the North American open-air museum, more commonly called a living history museum, had a different, slightly later origin than the European, and the visitor experience is different. The first was Henry Fords Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, but it was Colonial Williamsburg which had a greater influence on museum development in North America. It influenced such projects through the continent as Mystic Seaport, Plimoth Plantation, what tends to differentiate the North American from the European model is the approach to interpretation. In Europe, the tendency is to focus on the buildings

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Kentucky
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Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Kentucky is one of four U. S. states constituted as a commonwealth, originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States, Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State, a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures due to the fertile soil. One of the regions in Kentucky is the Bluegrass Region in central Kentucky. In 1776, the counties of Virginia beyond the Appalachian Mountains became known as Kentucky County, the precise etymology of the name is uncertain, but likely based on an Iroquoian name meaning the meadow or the prairie. Kentucky is situated in the Upland South, a significant portion of eastern Kentucky is part of Appalachia. Kentucky borders seven states, from the Midwest and the Southeast, West Virginia lies to the east, Virginia to the southeast, Tennessee to the south, Missouri to the west, Illinois and Indiana to the northwest, and Ohio to the north and northeast. Only Missouri and Tennessee, both of which border eight states, touch more, Kentuckys northern border is formed by the Ohio River and its western border by the Mississippi River. The official state borders are based on the courses of the rivers as they existed when Kentucky became a state in 1792, for instance, northbound travelers on U. S.41 from Henderson, after crossing the Ohio River, will be in Kentucky for about two miles. Ellis Park, a racetrack, is located in this small piece of Kentucky. Waterworks Road is part of the land border between Indiana and Kentucky. Kentucky has a part known as Kentucky Bend, at the far west corner of the state. It exists as an exclave surrounded completely by Missouri and Tennessee, Road access to this small part of Kentucky on the Mississippi River requires a trip through Tennessee. The epicenter of the powerful 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes was near this area, much of the outer Bluegrass is in the Eden Shale Hills area, made up of short, steep, and very narrow hills. The Jackson Purchase and western Pennyrile are home to several bald cypress/tupelo swamps, located within the southeastern interior portion of North America, Kentucky has a climate that can best be described as a humid subtropical climate. Temperatures in Kentucky usually range from daytime summer highs of 87 °F to the low of 23 °F. The average precipitation is 46 inches a year, Kentucky experiences four distinct seasons, with substantial variations in the severity of summer and winter. The highest recorded temperature was 114 °F at Greensburg on July 28,1930 while the lowest recorded temperature was −37 °F at Shelbyville on January 19,1994, due to its location, Kentucky has a moderate humid subtropical climate, with abundant rainfall

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Vocal school
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A vocal school, blab school or ABC school or Old-time School was a type of childrens primary school in North America, outdated and obsolete as the 19th century progressed. The school children recited their lessons out loud separately or in chorus with others as a method of learning, blab is the shortened form of the word blabber, meaning to talk much without making sense. From Old English comes the word muðettan, meaning to blab, middle English had the noun blabbe, one who does not control his tongue. A blab school was where the children repeated back their teachers oral lesson at the top of their voices. The school children vocalized out their lesson in Chinese fashion as harmonized voices in unison, in more elegant terms, instead of saying they were blab schools they were referred to as vocal schools. A blab school was popular in days of the American West. These one-room schools were called old field schools and were log cabins, the students sat on wooden backless benches. This type of school was referred to as an Old-time School in the Appalachian region of Virginia in the 19th century, a blab school was basically without books and paper for the students. The schooling consisted of a teacher, with one or two books, speaking a short oral lesson and the schoolchildren reciting it back with a loud voice several times until memorized. The only requirement needed to become a teacher was to know how to read, reciting the information learned was a form of entertainment in frontier days as well as a means of learning. In those days paper was scarce so memorizing was the method over writing things down. The subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic were the basic ABC items in the 19th century typically learned by the young children reciting out loud the lesson, in blab schools it was typical for a teacher to comment about a child grasping his lesson. This student was referred to as a leather-head and was awarded with praise from his teacher. In many of the ABC schools of the United States each pupil was to recite first thing in the morning of the new day the lesson they learned of their homework assignment of the previous day. The ambitious ones reached the house by sunrise since they recited in the order of their arrival in the morning. The school rule was first come, first called and after a recital the teacher called out Next as they knew the order of each students arrival. The method of reciting ones lesson to memorize it was referred to as loud studying, many people of the time believed that listening to one blabbing out loud their lesson benefitted the education of the other students. Teachers were not shy in dishing out punishment to those who didnt loudly shout out their lesson

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David McKenzie Log Cabin
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The David McKenzie Log Cabin is a historic house located within the Mountain Homeplace in Staffordsville, Kentucky, United States. The cabin was built between 1860 and 1865 by David McKenzie, who was a settler of Johnson County. It was originally located at 37°52′56″N 82°54′44″W, in Volga but was moved to the Mountain Homeplace in the early 1990s by the U. S. Army Corp of Engineers and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 26,1982. The cabin is a double-pen, 1 1⁄2-story cabin measuring approximately 34.6 by 30.4 feet, the walls are built of hewn logs with dovetail notching. The cabin rests on piers and contains a central fireplace. National Register of Historic Places listings in Johnson County, Kentucky Mountain Homeplace

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Paintsville Lake
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Paintsville Lake is a 1, 139-acre reservoir in Johnson and Morgan counties in eastern Kentucky. It was impounded from Paint Creek in 1983 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and it is the major attraction of Paintsville Lake State Park. Paintsville Lake officially opened to the public in 1983, three years before Paintsville Lake State Park was established, on December 9,1978, ten-thousand Johnson County residences had to be evacuated from the area below the construction site of the Paintsville Lake dam. This is because the area had received eight inches of rain. The dam did not break, and the residents were allowed to return to their homes the following day, Paintsville Lake has a variety of game fishing species. Fish that can be caught in the include, Paintsville Lake State Park Paintsville Lake facilities map Paintsville Lake area interactive GIS map

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Amphitheatre
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An amphitheatre or amphitheater /ˈæmfᵻˌθiːətər/ is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. The term derives from the ancient Greek ἀμφιθέατρον, from ἀμφί, ancient Roman amphitheatres were oval or circular in plan, with seating tiers that surrounded the central performance area, like a modern open-air stadium. In contrast both ancient Greek and ancient Roman theatres were built in a semicircle, with tiered seating rising on one side of the performance area. In modern usage, amphitheatre is used to describe theatre-style stages with spectator seating on only one side, theatres in the round. Natural formations of similar shape are known as natural amphitheatres. Ancient Roman amphitheatres were major public venues, circular or oval in plan and they were used for events such as gladiator combats, chariot races, venationes and executions. About 230 Roman amphitheatres have been found across the area of the Roman Empire, the earliest Roman amphitheatres date from the middle of the 1st century BC, but most were built under Imperial rule, from the Augustan period onwards. Imperial amphitheatres were built throughout the Roman empire, the largest could accommodate 40, the most elaborate featured multi-storeyed, arcaded façades and were elaborately decorated with marble, stucco and statuary. After the end of games in the 5th century and of staged animal hunts in the 6th. Their materials were mined or recycled, some were razed, and others were converted into fortifications. A few continued as convenient open meeting places, in some of these, in modern usage, an amphitheatre is a circular, semicircular or curved, acoustically vibrant performance space, particularly one located outdoors. Small-scale amphitheatres can serve to host outdoor local community performances, notable modern amphitheatres include the Shoreline Amphitheatre and the Hollywood Bowl. The term amphitheatre is used for some indoor venues such as the Gibson Amphitheatre. The term amphitheatre can also be used to naturally occurring formations which would be ideal for this purpose. Arena Stadium Thingplatz List of Roman amphitheatres List of contemporary amphitheatres List of indoor arenas List of ancient Greek theatres Roman theatre Bomgardner, the Story of the Roman Amphitheatre

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Ancient Greece
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Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th-9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and this was followed by the period of Classical Greece, an era that began with the Greco-Persian Wars, lasting from the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Due to the conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the end of the Mediterranean Sea. Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a influence on ancient Rome. For this reason Classical Greece is generally considered to be the culture which provided the foundation of modern Western culture and is considered the cradle of Western civilization. Classical Antiquity in the Mediterranean region is considered to have begun in the 8th century BC. Classical Antiquity in Greece is preceded by the Greek Dark Ages and this period is succeeded, around the 8th century BC, by the Orientalizing Period during which a strong influence of Syro-Hittite, Jewish, Assyrian, Phoenician and Egyptian cultures becomes apparent. The end of the Dark Ages is also dated to 776 BC. The Archaic period gives way to the Classical period around 500 BC, Ancient Periods Astronomical year numbering Dates are approximate, consult particular article for details The history of Greece during Classical Antiquity may be subdivided into five major periods. The earliest of these is the Archaic period, in which artists made larger free-standing sculptures in stiff, the Archaic period is often taken to end with the overthrow of the last tyrant of Athens and the start of Athenian Democracy in 508 BC. It was followed by the Classical period, characterized by a style which was considered by observers to be exemplary, i. e. classical, as shown in the Parthenon. This period saw the Greco-Persian Wars and the Rise of Macedon, following the Classical period was the Hellenistic period, during which Greek culture and power expanded into the Near and Middle East. This period begins with the death of Alexander and ends with the Roman conquest, Herodotus is widely known as the father of history, his Histories are eponymous of the entire field. Herodotus was succeeded by authors such as Thucydides, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Plato, most of these authors were either Athenian or pro-Athenian, which is why far more is known about the history and politics of Athens than those of many other cities. Their scope is limited by a focus on political, military and diplomatic history, ignoring economic. In the 8th century BC, Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization, literacy had been lost and Mycenaean script forgotten, but the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, modifying it to create the Greek alphabet. The Lelantine War is the earliest documented war of the ancient Greek period and it was fought between the important poleis of Chalcis and Eretria over the fertile Lelantine plain of Euboea. Both cities seem to have suffered a decline as result of the long war, a mercantile class arose in the first half of the 7th century BC, shown by the introduction of coinage in about 680 BC

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Louisville Courier-Journal
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The Courier-Journal, locally called The Courier or The C-J, is the main newspaper for the city of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the paper is the 48th-largest daily paper in the U. S. the Courier-Journal was created from the merger of several newspapers introduced in Kentucky in the 19th century. Pioneer paper The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature, was founded in 1826 in Louisville when the city was a settlement of less than 7,000 individuals. In 1830 a new newspaper, The Louisville Daily Journal, began distribution in the city and, in 1832, absorbed The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature. The Journal was an organ of the Whig Party, founded and edited by George D. Prentice, Prentice would edit the Journal for more than 40 years. In 1844, another newspaper, the Louisville Morning Courier was founded in Louisville by Walter Newman Haldeman, the Courier was suppressed by the Union and had to move to Nashville, but returned to Louisville after the war. In 1868, an ailing Prentice persuaded the 28-year-old Henry Watterson to come edit for the Journal, during secret negotiations in 1868, The Journal and the Courier merged and the first edition of The Courier-Journal was delivered to Louisvillians on Sunday morning, November 8,1868. Henry Watterson, the son of a Tennessee congressman, had written for Harpers Magazine and he became nationally known for his work as The Courier-Journal emerged as the regions leading paper. He supported the Democratic Party and pushed for the industrialization of Kentucky and he attracted controversy for attempting to prove that Christopher Marlowe had actually written the works of Shakespeare. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1917 for editorials demanding the United States enter World War I, the Courier-Journal founded a companion afternoon edition of the paper, The Louisville Times, in May 1884. In 1896, Watterson and Haldeman opposed Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan over his support of Free Silver coinage and this unpopular decision upset readers and advertisers, many of whom pulled their support for The Courier-Journal. Kentucky voted for the Republican candidate in 1896, the first time in state history, only the popularity of The Louisville Times, which had no strong editorial reputation, saved the newspaper company from bankruptcy. The Courier supported Bryan in future elections, Haldeman had owned the papers until his death in 1902, and by 1917 they were owned by his son, William, and Henry Watterson. On August 8,1918, Robert Worth Bingham purchased two-thirds interest in the newspapers, the liberal Bingham clashed with longtime editor Watterson, who remained on board, but was in the twilight of his career. Wattersons editorials opposing the League of Nations appeared alongside Binghams favoring it, I have always regarded the newspapers owned by me as a public trust and have endeavored so to conduct them as to render the greatest public service. As publisher, Bingham set the tone for his editorial pages, and pushed for improved education, support of African Americans. During Barry Bingham, Sr. s tenure, the paper was considered Kentuckys Newspaper of Record, in 1971, Barry Bingham, Jr. succeeded his father as the newspapers editor and publisher. The Binghams were well-liked owners popularly credited with being more concerned with publishing quality journalism than making heavy profits, Barry Bingham Jr. sought to free the papers from conflicts of interests, and through The Louisville Times, experimented with new ideas such as signed editorials

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Wayback Machine
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The Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine in October 2001. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet, the service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the archive calls a three dimensional index. Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been archiving cached pages of websites onto its large cluster of Linux nodes and it revisits sites every few weeks or months and archives a new version. Sites can also be captured on the fly by visitors who enter the sites URL into a search box, the intent is to capture and archive content that otherwise would be lost whenever a site is changed or closed down. The overall vision of the machines creators is to archive the entire Internet, the name Wayback Machine was chosen as a reference to the WABAC machine, a time-traveling device used by the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, an animated cartoon. These crawlers also respect the robots exclusion standard for websites whose owners opt for them not to appear in search results or be cached, to overcome inconsistencies in partially cached websites, Archive-It. Information had been kept on digital tape for five years, with Kahle occasionally allowing researchers, when the archive reached its fifth anniversary, it was unveiled and opened to the public in a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley. Snapshots usually become more than six months after they are archived or, in some cases, even later. The frequency of snapshots is variable, so not all tracked website updates are recorded, Sometimes there are intervals of several weeks or years between snapshots. After August 2008 sites had to be listed on the Open Directory in order to be included. As of 2009, the Wayback Machine contained approximately three petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of 100 terabytes each month, the growth rate reported in 2003 was 12 terabytes/month, the data is stored on PetaBox rack systems manufactured by Capricorn Technologies. In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its customized storage architecture to Sun Open Storage, in 2011 a new, improved version of the Wayback Machine, with an updated interface and fresher index of archived content, was made available for public testing. The index driving the classic Wayback Machine only has a bit of material past 2008. In January 2013, the company announced a ground-breaking milestone of 240 billion URLs, in October 2013, the company announced the Save a Page feature which allows any Internet user to archive the contents of a URL. This became a threat of abuse by the service for hosting malicious binaries, as of December 2014, the Wayback Machine contained almost nine petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of about 20 terabytes each week. Between October 2013 and March 2015 the websites global Alexa rank changed from 162 to 208, in a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc. defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots. Netbula objected to the motion on the ground that defendants were asking to alter Netbulas website, in an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No.02 C3293,65 Fed. 673, a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, Telewizja Polska is the provider of TVP Polonia and EchoStar operates the Dish Network

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Museum
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Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public, the goal of serving researchers is increasingly shifting to serving the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, the city with the largest number of museums is Mexico City with over 128 museums. According to The World Museum Community, there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countries, the English museum comes from the Latin word, and is pluralized as museums. The first museum/library is considered to be the one of Plato in Athens, however, Pausanias gives another place called Museum, namely a small hill in Classical Athens opposite to the Akropolis. The hill was called Mouseion after Mousaious, a man who used to sing on the hill, the purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display items of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for the education of the public. The purpose can also depend on ones point of view, to a family looking for entertainment on a Sunday afternoon, a trip to a local history museum or large city art museum could be a fun, and enlightening way to spend the day. To city leaders, a healthy museum community can be seen as a gauge of the health of a city. To a museum professional, a museum might be seen as a way to educate the public about the museums mission, Museums are, above all, storehouses of knowledge. In 1829, James Smithsons bequest, that would fund the Smithsonian Institution, stated he wanted to establish an institution for the increase, Museums of natural history in the late 19th century exemplified the Victorian desire for consumption and for order. Gathering all examples of classification of a field of knowledge for research. As American colleges grew in the 19th century, they developed their own natural history collections for the use of their students, while many large museums, such as the Smithsonian Institution, are still respected as research centers, research is no longer a main purpose of most museums. While there is a debate about the purposes of interpretation of a museums collection, there has been a consistent mission to protect. Much care, expertise, and expense is invested in efforts to retard decomposition in aging documents, artifacts, artworks. All museums display objects that are important to a culture, as historian Steven Conn writes, To see the thing itself, with ones own eyes and in a public place, surrounded by other people having some version of the same experience can be enchanting. Museum purposes vary from institution to institution, some favor education over conservation, or vice versa. For example, in the 1970s, the Canada Science and Technology Museum favored education over preservation of their objects and they displayed objects as well as their functions. One exhibit featured a printing press that a staff member used for visitors to create museum memorabilia

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National Quilt Museum
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The National Quilt Museum, located in Paducah, Kentucky, is an art museum that exhibits fiber art and quilting from around the world. The museum is recognized by USA Today as one of the worlds top quilt displays, the National Quilt Museum was established by Bill and Meredith Schroeder of Paducah and opened to the public on April 25,1991. It is the worlds foremost museum devoted to quilts and the museum dedicated to todays quilts. The main gallery is devoted to a selection of the museums permanent collection of over 500 quilts. Its two other galleries exhibit rotating fiber art exhibits throughout the year, founding Executive Director was Victoria Faoro. In addition to its commitment to world class fiber art. The museum was honored in May 2008 when the U. S. Congress designated it The National Quilt Museum of the United States. May Louise Zumwalt, former Executive Director of the Museum, said Though it does not mean we will receive national funding and this designation brings additional attention and helps increase the number of visitors. The museum currently averages 40,000 visitors per year, in June 2011 writer and consultant Frank W. Bennett became Chief Executive Officer of the Museum. In October 2011 the National Quilt Museum was honored with a 2011 Kentucky Governors Award in the Arts, Quilt Museum and Gallery in England Official site

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Speed Art Museum
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The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, now referred to as the Speed by locals, is the oldest, largest. It is located in Louisville, Kentucky on Third Street next to the University of Louisville Belknap campus, the Speed houses ancient, classical, and modern art from around the world. The focus of the collection is Western art, from antiquity to the present day, holdings of paintings from the Netherlands, French and Italian works, and contemporary art are particularly strong, with sculpture prominent throughout. The museum was built in 1927 by Arthur Loomis in the Neo-Classical style, Loomis was already well known in Louisville for landmarks like the Louisville Medical College and Levi Brothers. The original building was designed as an understated Beaux-Arts limestone facade, hattie Bishop Speed established the museum in memorial of her husband James Breckenridge Speed, a prominent Louisville businessman, art collector, and philanthropist. Ms. Speed set up the endowment to fund the museum, the museum underwent a $60 million expansion and renovation project from September 2012 to March 2016, designed by architect Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY architecture. During the closure, the museum opened Local Speed, a space in Louisvilles East Market District for rotating exhibitions, programs. Local Speed is located at 822 East Market Street, the 62, 500-square-foot North Building doubled the overall square footage and nearly tripled the gallery space from the previous wing. Additionally, the new Elizabeth P. and Frederick K. Cressman Art Park, timeline 1927 – The Speed Art Museum is built. More than 74,000 visitors fill the museum in the first year,1928 – The centenary of Kentucky portrait painter Matthew Harris Jouett is celebrated with a major exhibition of his portraits, many owned by prominent Louisvillians. 1933 – The museum is incorporated as an endowed institution. 1934 – The museum received its first major donation, a collection of North American Indian artifacts given by Dr. Frederick Weygold. 1941 – Dr. Preston Pope Satterwhite makes a significant gift to the museum – his collection of 15th century and 16th century French and Italian Decorative Arts including tapestries,1944 – Satterwhite donates the English Renaissance room, which was moved in its entirety from Devon, England. Dr. Satterwhites gift necessitated an enlargement of the museum and in his will he provided for the addition that bears his name, completed in 1954, it was the first of three additions to the original building. 1946 – Paul S. Harris becomes the first professional director of the museum, during his tenure, acquisitions to the collection were made mostly in the areas of decorative arts and furniture. 1964 – Recently donated paintings and furniture from the collection of Mrs. W.1966 – Charter Collectors Group forms to assist museum in the acquisition of pre-1940 art,1970 – New Art Collectors Group forms to assist museum to acquire contemporary art. 1973 – The North Wing of the museum opens, giving new space for a theatre, offices, indoor sculpture court,1977 – The Speed celebrates its 50th anniversary in 1977 with the acquisition of Rembrandts Portrait of a Woman, one of the museums most significant acquisitions

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University of Kentucky Art Museum
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The University of Kentucky Art Museum is an art museum in Lexington, Kentucky. The collection includes European and American artwork ranging from Old Masters to contemporary, featured artists include Alexander Calder, Agostino Carracci, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Gilliam, Louise Nevelson, and Gilbert Stuart, among others. The Art Museum is located on the University of Kentucky campus in the Singletary Center for the Arts, Rose Street, list of museums in Kentucky The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky home page

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Aviation Museum of Kentucky
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The Aviation Museum of Kentucky is an aviation museum located at the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky. Incorporated in April 1995, and opened to the public in August of the year, it includes 12,000 square feet of exhibit space, a library. The museum is the home of the Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame, historic airplanes, photos, documents and training equipment are all included in the museums permanent collection. A great number of the items from the original displays were donated from the personal collections of members of the Kentucky Aviation History Roundtable. The Roundtable is a group of aviation enthusiasts, founded in 1978. As a part of its collection, the museum displays both military and civilian aircraft, detailing aviation history, the museum houses aircraft ranging from restored barnstormers and vintage airliners, to historic warbirds and flyable aircraft from today

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Bill Monroe Museum
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The Bill Monroe Museum is a project of the Monroe Brothers Foundation to show the life of Bill Monroe and the early foundations of bluegrass music. The museum is in the house in Rosine, Kentucky, where Monroe grew up, beginning in 2001, they restored the five-room wooden home to its 1917 appearance and filled it with Monroe family heirlooms and mementos. In the same year, they began the annual Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Celebration, the foundation plans to restore the entire Monroe farm, including the barn, fields, and Uncle Pens cabin. They plan also a living tour of the path the brothers took to their Uncle Pens home as they met to go play square dances. Bill Monroes Homeplace / Rosine Barn Jamboree Visit Ohio County, Bill Monroe Homeplace

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General George Patton Museum of Leadership
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The museum is administered by the U. S. Army Cadet Command, Fort Knox and the U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. As of September 7,2010, the houses the newly established General George Patton Museum of Leadership. The museum includes a number of Pattons personal effects, dating from his childhood until the end of World War II, including his office van, the gift store sells two sizes of miniature replicas of gold bars from the nearby gold depository. The museum, as the Patton Museum, had many tank exhibits, Museum at Fort Knox getting updated. Patton Museum in the midst of change, Fort Knox reduces hours, closes main exhibit at Patton Museum for renovations. Museum shows theres more than gold at Fort Knox

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Muhammad Ali Center
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The Muhammad Ali Center is a non-profit museum and cultural center in Louisville, Kentucky. Dedicated to boxer Muhammad Ali, a native of Louisville, it is located in the citys West Main District, the six-story,96,750 sq ft. museum opened on November 19,2005 at a cost of $80 million. It also includes a 40,000 sq ft two-level amphitheater, on April 4,2013, a new pedestrian bridge opened, helping residents and visitors connect from the Muhammad Ali Centers plaza to the Belvedere, the Waterfront, and other downtown attractions. The 170-foot-long walkway is nine feet wide, with metal panels that complement the Ali Center plazas design. The cultural center features exhibitions regarding Alis core values of respect, confidence, conviction, dedication, charity, an orientation theater helps present Alis life. A mock boxing ring is recreated based on his Deer Lake Training Camp, a two-level pavilion, housed within a large elliptical room, features Alis boxing memorabilia and history. A large projector displays the film The Greatest onto a full-sized boxing ring, there are also booths where visitors can view clips of Alis greatest fights on video-on-demand terminals, which also feature pre- and post-fight interviews. Another exhibit offers visitors the chance to explore sense of self, others, the final exhibits include Hope and Dream and Global Voices. Hope and Dream is composed of over 5,000 tiles with drawings and paintings from children from 141 countries, Global Voices is a similar project, in which the Ali Center asked questions to both children and adults from around the world. The answers were submitted through a variety of mediums, such as drawings and poems, two art galleries, the LeRoy Neiman Gallery and the Howard L. Bingham Gallery, feature rotating exhibits that are located on the third floor. List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area List of museums focused on African Americans List of museums in the Louisville metropolitan area Official website

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Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum
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The Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum was the birthplace and childhood home of Whitney M. Young, Jr. an American civil rights leader. The simple wooden house in Shelby County, Kentucky, near Louisville, is on the campus of the former Lincoln Institute, Young was born in the house in 1921 and lived there through his high school years. After Youngs death in 1971, the house was dedicated as a shrine to his memory, today, numerous photographs, articles, and other items related to Young and the Lincoln Institute are on display inside the house. The house appears on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1984, list of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area National Register of Historic Places listings in Shelby County, Kentucky

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Adsmore
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Adsmore is a living history museum located on North Jefferson Street in Princeton, Kentucky. It is the only living home museum in Kentucky and its name is believed to be derived from numerous additions and renovations over 150 years. Adsmore was originally constructed as the Greek Revival-style residence of dry goods merchant John Higgins in 1854, hewitt owned the residence from about 1870 until 1900. At that time, it was sold to John Parker Smith, of the prominent Smith-Garrett family, the house passed to Smiths daughter, Mayme Garrett, on his death. Garretts daughter, Katherine Garrett, inherited Adsmore and made it her home until her death in September 1984 and she bequeathed the Adsmore estate to the trustees of the George Coon Public Library. Her will stipulated that all of its elaborate furnishings be restored, along with the residence, her endowment for the operation of a museum is said to be over $1,000,000. Adsmore was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and it opened as a museum in 1986. The Adsmore House and Museum conducts tours each weekday and for events such as the Black Patch Festival. The tours content and the furnishings and decor change for the different seasons depicted in the house, associate editors, Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Lexington, Kentucky, The University Press of Kentucky, official website Attractions in Western Kentucky Adsmore House & Museum

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Ashland (Henry Clay estate)
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Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. It is a registered National Historic Landmark, the Ashland Stakes, a Thoroughbred horse race at Keeneland Race Course that has run annually since the race course first opened in 1936, was named for the historically important estate. Henry Clay came to Lexington, Kentucky from Virginia in 1797 and he began buying land for his plantation in 1804.1 The Ashland farm—which during Clays lifetime was outside of the city limits—at its largest consisted of over 600 acres. It is unclear whether Clay named the plantation or retained a prior name, Clay and his family resided at Ashland from c.1806 until his death in 1852. Given his political career, Clay spent most of the years between 1810 and 1829 in Washington, DC and he was a major planter, owning up to 60 slaves to operate his plantation. Among the slaves were Aaron and Charlotte Dupuy, and their children Charles, Clay took them with him to Washington, DC. Their lives have recently gained new recognition in an exhibit at the Decatur House, in 1829,28 years before the more famous Dred Scott challenge, Charlotte Dupuy sued Henry Clay for her freedom and that of her two children in Washington circuit court. She was ordered to stay in Washington while the case proceeded, and lived there for 18 months, working for Martin Van Buren. Clay took Aaron, Charles and Mary Ann Dupuy with him when he returned to Ashland, when the court ruled against Dupuy and she would not return voluntarily to Kentucky, Clays agent had her arrested. Clay had Dupuy transported to New Orleans and placed with his daughter and son-in-law, finally in 1840 Clay freed Charlotte and Mary Ann Dupuy, and in 1844 freed her son Charles Dupuy. Clay had divided the Ashland estate among three sons, after Clays death, son James Brown Clay owned and occupied Ashland proper and a surrounding approximately 325-acre tract. James Clay rebuilt the house and his family resided there until his death in 1864 and his widow Susan Jacob Clay put the estate up for sale in 1866. Kentucky University purchased Ashland and used it as part of its campus, University founder and regent John Bryan Bowman occupied the mansion. The Agricultural and Mechanical College was situated on Clays former farm, Kentucky University split into what became Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, and sold Ashland in 1882. Henry Clays granddaughter Anne Clay McDowell and her husband Henry Clay McDowell purchased the estate and they moved in with their children in 1883. Their eldest daughter Nannette McDowell Bullock continued to occupy Ashland until her death in 1948 and she founded the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation, which purchased and preserved Ashland. The historic house opened to the public in 1950. The city of Ashland, Missouri in Boone County, a heavily Whig area, was named in honor of the estate, the borough of Ashland, Pennsylvania in Schuylkill County, an anthracite coal mining town, was named in honor of the estate as well

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Barthell, Kentucky
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Barthell is a former coal town in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. It was established in 1902 and was the first of 18 mining camps to be built by the Stearns Coal and it now serves as an open-air history museum, which is open from April through Thanksgiving. During the 1880s-90s, a portion of the land surrounding the Big South Fork was purchased by L. E. Bryant who began exploring the deposits of coal. In 1901, Byrant sent his associate, John Toomey, to lumber baron Justus S. Stearns in Michigan, by 1902, Barthell was established and work began in Mine No.1. The first shipment of coal was delivered from Barthell in 1903 after the completion of the Kentucky, during 1905 and 1906, operations expanded at Barthell with the opening of Mine No.2. From 1923 to 1927, the Bryant lease was purchased by the Stearns Coal. Business boomed even during the height of the Great Depression, with a record monthly coal production of 100,961 tons of coal in January 1930, the onset of World War II further increased coal production at Barthell, requiring the addition of a second railway line. The decline of Barthell began in 1943 when the tipple at Mine No.1 was destroyed by fire and was never rebuilt, Mine No.1 was also closed shortly after the fire at the tipple. Coal mined from Mine No.2 was then sent to the tipple at Mine No.18 at the Blue Heron Mining complex, the dismantling of the coal camp began in 1952 and was completed in 1961. In 1984, the Barthell coal camp was purchased by the Koger family, many of the communitys original structures, such as the company store, doctors office, and school house have been renovated and can be toured. Fifteen former coal camp homes have also renovated and can be rented for overnight stays

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Blue Heron, Kentucky
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Blue Heron was operated as a company town of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Company. Its coal mines opened in 1937 and operated until December 1962, the town was abandoned, and its buildings were either removed or decayed. The community was re-created in the 1980s as an outdoor museum, some of the original structures have been replicated as open, metal shells of buildings, referred to as ghost structures, on the approximate sites of the original buildings. Structures include a railroad depot, a model of the coal tipple, a school. Photographic exhibits and audio programs in the ghost structures tell about various aspects of life in the mining community. town is now owned by Daniel Brett husband. National Park Service website about Blue Heron Historic Photographs of Blue Heron Big South Fork Scenic Railway

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Bluegrass Heritage Museum
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Bluegrass Heritage Museum is a local history museum in Winchester, Kentucky. The museum explores many eras, ranging from the Eskippakithiki Indian Village, to Daniel Boone and his settlement of Boonesboro, the museum also holds public programming related to Kentuckys Civil War heritage. The museum also houses the collections of the former Pioneer Telephone Museum, the museum is housed in a former medical clinic whose architecture is considered to be Romanesque Revival. The earliest owner of the building was well respected physician, Dr. Ishmael and he opened his office in 1887 and practiced medicine up until his death in 1920. In 1927, Edward Putney Guerrant, a physician, turned the building into the Guerrant Clinic and Hospital, the Guerrants son, Edward Owings Guerrant, joined the medical practice following his military service in World War II. Edward Putney Guerrant died on June 17,1964, Edward Owings Guerrant practiced medicine until 1985 and died on May 9,1993. The building last served as a clinic in 1989, the museum has preserved some of the clinics medical instruments for display, as well as the third floors operating room. In 2009, the museum became home to the collection of the Pioneer Telephone Museum, the collection includes antique crank phones, early switchboards, and other telephone memorabilia. Winchester community members began efforts, in 2000, to house a museum in the former clinic, by then, the building had fallen into disrepair, and the museum board estimated it would cost half a million dollars to fully renovate the clinic

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Civil War Museum (Bardstown)
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The Civil War Museum in Bardstown, Kentucky is a collection of five attractions along what is called Museum Row. It was established in 1996 by Dr. Henry Spalding, the leading attraction is the Civil War Museum, which is the fourth largest American Civil War Museum and is dedicated to the Western Theater of the war. The main building was originally the icehouse and waterworks of Bardstown, the five attractions are, Civil War Museum of the Western Theater, organized by chronology and geography. A notable exhibit is the flag of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, pioneer Village, Commonly called the Civil War Village, it features buildings built in Nelson County, Kentucky, from 1776 to 1820. Womens Civil War Museum, Opened in 1999, it is the museum that looks into the role of women during the American Civil War. It is in the well-known Wright Talbott House, War Memorial of Mid America, Honors those who came from the middle of the United States who fought for freedom from the first Revolutionary War to Operation Desert Storm. Wildlife Museum, features life-sized North American wildlife, as well as minerals and fossils from around the world, Kentucky in the American Civil War List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area Official site

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Coal Miners' Museum (Van Lear)
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The Coal Miners Museum is a museum in Van Lear, Kentucky dedicated to the areas coal mining history. The museum is administered by the Van Lear Historical Society, the museum was originally built in 1913 to serve as the Consolidation Coal Companys office for Van Lear. Along with Consols office, the building contained several businesses and has even housed Van Lears city hall. After the building was abandoned, Citizens National Bank eventually purchased it, the historical society then established the Coal Miners Museum. A documentary of Van Lear during the 1930s, displays showing the community during the boom years. Replica of the old post office, replica of the old doctors office. Van Lear Historical Society Coal Miners Museum MySpace Page Paintsville Tourism

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My Old Kentucky Home State Park
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My Old Kentucky Home State Park is a state park located in Bardstown, Kentucky. The parks centerpiece is Federal Hill, a farm owned by United States Senator John Rowan in 1795, during the Rowan familys occupation, the mansion became a meeting place for local politicians and hosted several visiting dignitaries. The farm is best known for its association with American composer Stephen Fosters anti-slavery ballad My Old Kentucky Home, Fosters song by the same name was made the state song of Kentucky in 1928. The Federal Hill mansion was featured on a U. S. postage stamp in 1992, Federal Hill, commonly known as My Old Kentucky Home, is a historic mansion that was planned and commissioned by Judge John Rowan and his wife Ann Lytle. The mansions original surrounding 1,200 acres were also known as Federal Hill. The rear portion of the mansion was constructed in 1795, additional space from 1799 to 1802, with Rowan in residence, Federal Hill was a local power center in the realms of legal, political, and social events. Prominent visitors to the home included Marquis de Lafayette, Stephen Foster, Andrew Jackson, Judge Rowan occupied a Louisville residence during the majority of his later years and was rarely in residence at Federal Hill near the end of his life. In 1839, the house suffered damage to the third story. Carpenter Alexander Moore was hired to repair the damage, as he had worked on the design elements, John Rowan, Jr. occupied Federal Hill after the death of his father. When John, Jr. died in 1855, his widow, Rebecca Carnes Rowan, the house then passed to their daughter, Madge Frost. The imagery of Federal Hill and Harriet Beecher Stowes anti-slavery novel Uncle Toms Cabin are cited as the inspiration for Stephen Fosters anti-slavery ballad known as My Old Kentucky Home, according to Morrison Foster, Stephen Fosters brother, Stephen was an occasional visitor to Federal Hill. Stephens sister Charlotte also visited Federal Hill and courted Atkinson Hill Rowan who unsuccessfully proposed to Charlotte, in 1922, the My Old Kentucky Home Commission purchased Federal Hill from Madge Rowan Frost, the last heir of Federal Hill farm. The Commission renovated the property and gave the farm to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for use as a state park, Federal Hill is made primarily of brick fired on-site and laid in the Flemish bond pattern. The mansion possesses a foundation crafted of limestone native to the surrounding countryside, the windowsills and mantels were finely carved by a free black craftsman. The mansion is designed in the Federal Style, Federal Hill has three floors traversed by a staircase located within a central hallway on each floor and an English basement. The first floors main rooms are a room, parlor. The second floor consists of three bedrooms similarly spaced to the rooms below, auxiliary farm buildings associated with the mansion include the original springhouse. To the rear of the home the oldest section of residence can be seen, the ell consists of four rooms as well as the kitchen and smokehouse

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Francis M. Stafford House
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The Francis M. Stafford House is a historic house located at 102 Broadway Street in Paintsville, Kentucky, United States. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places not only for its architecture, in 1843, John Stafford, the original owner of the house, helped establish the city of Paintsville. Then in the 1930s, the Stafford family sold most of their 1,000 acres farm to the city, the rear part of the home was built circa 1843, while the front part was built circa 1888, making it the oldest house in Johnson County. Although the home was built for John Stafford, it was named for his son who accumulated his fathers property after he died in 1869. Francis Stafford also built the part of the house. In 1861 a holly tree was planted in front of the house, since 1979, after the death of May Stafford, the daughter of Francis M. Stafford, the house has remained vacant. In 2003, the state of Kentucky offered a $200,000 grant to the city of Paintsville in order to help with the purchase, on July 12,2003, the Paintsville City Council declined the grant. In April 2010, a resident from nearby Floyd County purchased the home, after two years of renovations, the Stafford House opened for tours in October 2012

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Frazier History Museum
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The Frazier History Museum is a museum in Louisville, Kentuckys Museum Row in the West Main District of downtown. It is named for the museums founder Owsley Brown Frazier, there are traveling exhibitions on display that are on loan from various sources. In addition, a number of costumed interpreters are employed, who perform daily historical interpretations as well as live demonstrations, educational, cultural and entertainment activities are hosted at the museum throughout the day and evening. The museum is an affiliate in the Smithsonian Affiliations program, the museum has a Rooftop Garden and Loft event space that are often rented for weddings or corporate events. The facilities include 75,000 square feet of space over three floors, as well as two areas for interpretations, a 120-seat auditorium, and various displays. The Frazier Museum Store is on the first floor in the front of the museum, the museum formerly displayed British Royal Armouries artifacts, making them the only place in the world outside Great Britain to permanently house and display such artifacts. The museum focuses on objects from the last 1,000 years. Items in the include a rifle reputedly once owned by George Washington, Teddy Roosevelts Big Stick hunting rifle, and items once owned by Buffalo Bill Cody. The museum also features traveling exhibits, in 2010 the Civil Wars oldest remaining monument, the 32nd Indiana Monument, was placed in the lobby for free viewing

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Highlands Museum and Discovery Center
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The Highlands Museum and Discovery Center is a heritage center and science center located in Ashland, Kentucky, United States. The museum displays exhibits on history and specialized science displays for children along with providing educational outreach programs. The Kentucky Highlands Museum and Discovery Center was established in 1984 in Ashlands historic Mayo Mansion as the Kentucky Highlands Museum, by 1994, additional space was needed and the museum was moved to the former C. H. Parsons Department Store Building in Ashlands Commercial Historic District. The museum was renamed the Highlands Museum and Discovery Center in 1997, phase I of redevelopment began in November 2005 and was completed in January 2006. Phase II began in the fall of 2006 after Perry and Susan Madden, however, in July 2013, the foundation, citing economic conditions and other factors, placed the building for sale. The museum finalized the purchase of the building in November 2013, Highlands Museum and Discovery Center Permanent Exhibits

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Historic Locust Grove
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Historic Locust Grove is a 55-acre 18th-century farm site and National Historic Landmark situated in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky. The site is owned by the Louisville Metro government, and operated as an interpretive site by Historic Locust Grove. The main feature on the property is the ca.1790 Georgian mansion that was the home of the Croghan family and gathering place for George Rogers Clark, Lewis and Clark, and U. S. Presidents. In addition to the mansion there is the Visitors Center that houses a shop, museum. The site was founded in 1790 by William Croghan and his wife Lucy Clark Croghan, Lucy was the sister of the younger William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the older George Rogers Clark, former surveying partner of William Croghan. Locust Grove became the only still in existence west of the Appalachian Mountains to have sheltered Lewis. In the Fall of 2006, Locust Grove commemorated the 200th anniversary of Lewis, George Rogers Clark lived at the site in the final years of his life, from 1809 to 1818. The property was adjacent to Springfield, the home of Colonel Richard Taylor and his son, following the death of William Croghan, the estate passed to John C. Croghan, notable for his purchase of Mammoth Cave in 1838, in the winter of 1844, the farm was the site of the efforts of African-American slave Stephen Bishop to produce a map of Mammoth Cave. The resulting map was published in 1845, and remained the most complete and accurate map of the period until modern survey techniques were applied in 1908 and it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1986

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James A. Ramage Civil War Museum
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The James A. Ramage Civil War Museum seeks to tell the untold story of Cincinnati and Northern Kentuckys involvement in the American Civil War. Although there were no major battles set there, the people of the area resisted a strong push by the Confederate army in 1862 and this museum is set on one of the key locations of that stronghold - Battery Hooper. The museum sits on 17 acres beautiful with historical passages, stories, not only does it focus on the Civil War, but it also pays homage to the Black Brigade, Fern Storers kitchen, and the history of Fort Wright. The city of Ft. Wright, Kentucky, was approached in 2004 regarding a piece of property that had gone on sale. The property once belonged to Fern and Sheldon Storer and was located on top of a hill that had historical significance and this hill was one of the 31 battery locations that helped fend off 6,000 of Confederate Gen. Henry Heths soldiers in September 1862. Local men and soldiers worked together to erect an eight-mile defensive line from Ludlow to Fort Thomas to defend against the Confederate invasion of Kentucky, men dug rifle pits, erected forts, and cut trees for a clear field of fire using tree limbs as barriers against infantry. The Confederate invaders withdrew into the night, the property, and more specifically the two-story house that sat on it, was also significant because it was the former home of Fern Storer. Mrs. Storer was a food editor for the now defunct Cincinnati Post from 1951 to 1976. She was meticulous about testing recipes, said Cincinnati Post home/food editor Joyce Rosencrans and she took great pride in the accuracy of those food sections and passed those principles down to me. Fern Storer died in 2002 and bequeathed her house and 14.5 acres to the Northern Kentucky University Foundation, rather than sell the lucrative hilltop site to developers, the NKU Foundation sold the property to the city of Fort Wright for $790,000. City officials, in turn, announced plans to turn the site into a passive park focusing on the areas Civil War heritage. This land is where Hooper Battery was located and is one of only six Civil War fortifications left in Northern Kentucky, in May 2004, Fort Wright Administrator Larry Klein said this of the grant, This will be a great start to a great park. The few batteries that do exist arent very accessible, there will be no place else like this in Greater Cincinnati thatll be preserved and open for public use. Today, only six batteries remain - four in Kenton County, the museums namesake, Dr. James A. Ramage, is a History professor at Northern Kentucky University as well as a Civil War author. Hes won numerous awards at NKU such as Outstanding Professor of the Year, Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, also, at the Phi Alpha Theta national convention in Philadelphia, January 4–6,2006, he was elected national vice president and president elect. In 2004 Ramage received a University-Community Partnership Grant through NKUs Scripps Howard Center for Civil Engagement for the Battery Hooper Project. The goal was to partner with the City of Fort Wright in involving students and the public in preserving, researching, City Administrator Larry Klein represented the city and NKU Adjunct Professor Jeannine Kreinbrink was Archaeology Project Manager. On June 30,2005, the project culminated with the opening of a museum on the site, mayor Gene Weaver and the City Council named the museum in honor of Ramages work

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Kentucky Coal Museum
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The Kentucky Coal Museum is heritage center located in Benham, Kentucky. Its focus is the history of the industry in Eastern Kentucky, featuring specific exhibits on the company towns of Benham. It is housed in a company store that was built by International Harvester in 1923. In June 1990, the Tri-City Chamber of Commerce purchased the building for the site of the museum. After receiving additional grants from the state of Kentucky, the museum opened in May 1994, in 2009, the museum began to coordinate tours of the nearby Portal 31 Mine, which opened in 1917 in Lynch, Kentucky. The thirty-minute tour of the mine involves eight stops that chronologically depict a different era in coal mining, ranging from the 1910s to present-day, Coal Miners Museum David A. Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum Kentucky Coal Museum & Portal 31 Portal 31 Kingdom Come State Park

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Lexington History Center
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Prior to the closing of the building, the Isaac Scott Hathaway Museum moved to a new location on Georgetown Street. The building has closed off until renovations by the city can begin. The Lexington History Museum was not closed after deteriorating lead paint and asbestos, in fact, when the museum opened in October 2003, signs were prominently displayed in the upper reaches of the building warning of lead paint and asbestos. After evicting the Museums from the building, the city has committed to spending $30 million to renovate the building for commercial space, following the closure of the history center, the Lexington History Museum has utilized empty spaces in downtown and created pocket museums to house its exhibits. The Lexington History Museum was the last organization to vacate the building, completing a move of its collections to a warehouse in fall 2014. The Lexington Public Safety Museum opened on November 20,2004, the museum features exhibits that explore the history of Lexingtons police, fire and corrections and those that gave the ultimate sacrifice and became Fallen Heroes. The Public Safety Museum has not reopened in a new location, the Kentucky Renaissance Pharmacy Museum is dedicated to the early history of Bluegrass region pharmacies. Cityscape of Lexington, Kentucky Lexington History Museum Lexington Public Safety Museum Kentucky Renaissance Pharmacy Museum

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Magoffin County Pioneer Village and Museum
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Magoffin County Pioneer Village and Museum is museum in downtown Salyersville, Kentucky that exhibits a collection of reconstructed log buildings from, mostly, the eastern region of Kentucky. The Magoffin County Historical Society maintains a Library and Archives Center with a collection of genealogical and historical material at the site, most of the cabins displayed in the reconstructed village date back to the early 19th century. The structures use all original materials from the log buildings, the buildings are disassembled and then transported to the Pioneer Village for reassembly on site

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Mary Todd Lincoln House
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Mary Todd Lincoln House at 578 West Main Street in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, was the family home of Mary Todd, the future first lady and wife of the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. 1803–1806 as an inn and tavern, which was called The Sign of the Green Tree before its purchase by the Todd family, the family moved in to the three-story home in 1832. Mary Todd lived in this home until 1839, when she moved to Springfield, after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln visited her family here. Today the fourteen-room house contains furniture, portraits, and artifacts from the Todd. The Mary Todd Lincoln house has the distinction of being the first historic site restored in honor of a First Lady, operated by the Kentucky Mansions Preservation Foundation, Inc. the house museum was opened to the public on June 9,1977. Nunn, wife of Governor Louie B, nunn, along with the Kentucky Mansions Preservation Foundation, Inc. and the Metropolitan Womens Club of Lexington, gained support to preserve and restore the Mary Todd Lincoln House. In June 1996, the Beula C, nunn Garden at the Mary Todd Lincoln House was dedicated and opened to the public. Today the enclosed gardens contain trees, plants, herbs and shrubs that represent what may have been in the gardens at the Todd home in the nineteenth century. The property is open to the public as a house museum. Belle Brezing was a girl in a bawdy house, run by Jenny Hill. Later she became a madam in her own right, with her own brothel, Brezing is widely credited as having inspired Margaret Mitchells character of Belle Watling in her novel, Gone With The Wind. Lexington in the American Civil War Official website National Park Service Page on the House

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McCreary County Museum
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The McCreary County Museum is housed in the former Stearns Coal and Lumber Company corporate headquarters in Stearns, Kentucky. The exhibits include significant coverage of Appalachian life in McCreary County, the first floor is filled with historic documents, objects, and photographs pertaining to McCreary County and the Stearns Coal & Lumber Company. The second floor has a bedroom and parlor from the early 1930s. Other exhibits display the culture and lifestyle of the people of McCreary County with social exhibits that include a church room. The museum is adjacent to the depot of the Big South Fork Scenic Railway, a heritage railroad